"Searching For A Gem"

Bob Dylan's Officially
Released
Rarities and Obscurities

Acknowledgments

Revised:
13 March, 2018.

This web-site would not be possible without all the people who have contributed
entries, pictures, comments and corrections. Despite the size of this site,
it's still like a jigsaw puzzle with hundreds of pieces missing - every new item
for inclusion is very gratefully received.

Special thanks go to Hans Seegers for his ongoing provision of huge amounts
of information and scans of unique rarities. Also for his patience in sorting
out previous errors!

Thanks also to Jeani Hoftijzer and the late Wim van der Mark from the Netherlands for
the extensive Dylan
discography site "Inside The Museums",
which has provided much vital information and corrections to existing entries.
Sadly, this resource is no longer available.

Thanks to Rod MacBeath for his series of seven articles "Looking Up
Dylan's Sleeves" in "The Telegraph" issues 50-56. These articles
answer so many queries to this web-site that I would like to see them published
as a book that I could recommend to readers.

Thanks to Alan Hoaksey for the information provided by his ongoing series
of discographical lists in his section "The Dime Store" in "The
Bridge" magazine .

Thanks to Sam C. Visser for all the information provided by
his web-site "Rebel With A Cause" featuring Dylan 7" picture
sleeves. Sadly Sam died on 28 Feb 2005 at far
too young an age. Other contributors no longer with us are Pete Baker and
Martin Barrack, both of whom died in 2008, David Plentus, webmaster of the
"Dylan Covers" site, who died in a house fire in Jan 2011, and Polish Bob Dylan fan Artur Jarosiński,
who died in a car crash on his way home from a concert in 2011 aged only 32. Steven Jump of Badlands
in Cheltenham, who died in Sep 2013, supplied me with many Dylan rarities
including "The 50th Anniversary Collection" in 2012. Mike Silk,
who also died in 2013, was a great friend from my tape and CD-R collecting days.

Thanks to Peter Gilmer from Australia for a huge bundle of Dylan rarities
from his extensive collection, some of which were new to the site.

HPB with Ozzy Osbourne!

Thanks to Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff of BMG
Germany (now Sony Music) for his sterling work in re-releasing obscure and
rarely-heard cover versions of Dylan songs, especially the unreleased
songs, in his BMG "May Your Song Always Be Sung" series and the 2011
Sony Music "Pure Dylan"
compilation.

Also thanks to Roger Ford and Jeff Friedman for their discographies inside
Robert Shelton's "No Direction Home: The Live & Music of Bob Dylan" (New English
Library, 1986) and Bob Spitz's "Dylan: A Biography" (Michael Joseph, 1989).
Robert Shelton's book was republished by Omnibus Press in 2011 in an expanded
edition edited by Elizabeth Thompson and Patrick Humphries. A new appendix
describes this web-site as "chillingly thorough", a rather back-handed
compliment!

Thanks to Tim Dunn for his help with Dylan copyrights, for
copies of his books, and
for information from US "Goldmine" magazines. Buy the latest edition
of Tim's book "The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-2007" from amazon.com and all
other Internet bookshops.

Various issues of the UK "Record Collector" magazine, edited by Peter
Doggett, have also proved very useful for supplying and verifying information
for these pages .
Thanks also to Jason Draper and Ian Shirley from "Record Collector". Thanks to David Burgess for supplying several articles from back issues from the
1980s onwards. Thanks also to David for providing scans and for the loan of the book "Bob
Dylan: An Illustrated Discography" by Stuart Hoggard and Jim Shields.

Thanks also to Derek and Tracy Barker of "Isis" magazine, and Ian Woodward,
author of "The Wicked Messenger" diary, both sources of much information for
these pages. Derek's book "The Songs He Didn't Write: Bob Dylan Under The Influence" (Chrome Dreams, 2008), which
has been used extensively to check the
correct authorship of songs somewhere attributed to Bob in the "Starlight In The East -
Bob Dylan's Unreleased Songs" section.

Love him or hate him, this site has made extensive use
(always credited) of the work of Clinton Heylin including "Dylan: Behind Closed
Doors, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994", "A Life In Stolen Moments - Bob Dylan Day By Day:
1941-1995", "Bob Dylan Behind The Shades Take Two", "Revolution In
The Air - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73", "Still On The Road - The
Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2: 1974-2008" and "Judas! From Forest Hills to the
Free Trade Hall - A Historical View of the Big Boo".

Also many thanks to Michael Gray, author of "Song & Dance Man
III: The Art of Bob Dylan" and "The Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia" (which contains a
flattering entry about me and this site). Michael's web-site is here
.

Thanks to Jeff Gold, the record dealer and rock music writer
who has just written "101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of
Vinyl from The Beatles to The Sex Pistols" including The Freewheelin' Bob
Dylan, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, Mr. Tambourine Man by The
Byrds, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde.

Thanks also to Lars M. Banke who has contributed many
imported copies of US and Canadian albums exported to Scandinavia with the
"Columbia" logos obscured or stickered-over - three examples are shown on the
right.

Thanks also to Dr. C. P. Lee, eminent Mancunian and author
of "Like The Night: Bob Dylan and the Road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall"
(1998 and 2004). I was at the Free Trade Hall concert in May 1965, but sadly not
there in May 1966!

It's
also worth mentioning "The Bob Dylan Album File & Complete Discography"
by Brian Hinton, a book which contains two very flattering
references to this web-site, in the introduction on page 7 and in the
section on " Websites and Fanzines" on page 449!

And of course, my own "Bob Dylan Worldwide: The First
Twenty Years", co-authored with Christoph Maus of Maus of Music, Hamburg,
Germany.